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Tue, Jun 5, 12 at 0:45
| I need help I have a few things i have collected that I want to do something with but I'm blocked idk so many you could give me some ideas...
I have 4 large pallets and about 50 gray bricks and other randomly materials. What would you do with these materials? I have plenty of space :) |
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| You can make a compost area with the pallets if you put them up and down instead of the usual down way. You make it 3 sided so you can get in there and turn it. What else do you have? The bricks you can put under pots to keep the fire ants from nesting in your pots. |
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- Posted by stompoutbermuda Z8DesertSunsetZ11 (My Page) on Wed, Jun 6, 12 at 0:03
| Lay the pallet down on the groud and stack the cinder block around the pallet to make a raised bed. The pallet on the bottom will decompose and add to the soil. |
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- Posted by ToshaLynn 9 (tosha_lynn@hotmail.com) on Wed, Jun 6, 12 at 11:04
| thank you guys for the ideas :) I'm gonna make a raised bed I believe. I already have a compose pile which btw I love! I love the idea about using the bricks to keep my plants off the ground! I have been collecting materials for a while now. There is this window company that leaves out their pallets for me once a week so I have an endless supply of pallets. My favorite ones are the small ones I think they are 2ft x 2ft they fit perfectly over my privacy fence posts. I have one of every other post with morning glories and moon flowers growing wrapping themselves around them. It gives a rustic look to the back yard! |
Here is a link that might be useful: my facebook photo album
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- Posted by cowgirl_kitkatt none (My Page) on Sat, Jun 30, 12 at 19:04
| i just made a pallet fence. (just a thought for an endless supply) right now im looking for vines to grow on it. |
Here is a link that might be useful: this is my post which has a picture
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- Posted by ernie85017 (My Page) on Sun, Jul 1, 12 at 13:20
| Can't find picture, but love the idea. |
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| If you have enough gray brick you could make a fire pit to roast those veggies on! |
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| I'm digging some new beds and use bricks for edging around them. |
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- Posted by irisnquilt Zn 5 (My Page) on Thu, Jul 26, 12 at 10:33
| we took bricks from various projects, finds and created a walkway. Random pattern and then placed low growing plants in between the bricks like sweet woodruff (you can't kill that stuff) and it's not invasive. The pattern, colors are so pretty. The pallets go to Pinterest you can get many many ideas!! We use them to create chairs, beds and my hubby has even used them to build a drying shed for our wood (wood burning stove) and he's also used them for one side of my "green" greenhouse. We found patio doors in people's trash, a picket fence and many many windows and doors. My greenhouse is 8x8 and is so cool looking! Next we're going to a chicken coop! |
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- Posted by Leekle2ManE Lady Lake, FL 9a (My Page) on Sat, Jul 28, 12 at 21:28
| I personally took a pallet that came with my shed, cut it roughly in half, so that the planks only rest on two 2x4's instead of three. Then I dug two 4" deep trenches in my plant bed on either side and parallel of my underground power cable and laid the new, makeshift 'bridge' over it. It made for both a safety feature as it prevents me from planting/digging anything over the power line and it also adds an architectural feature to the bed in that it looks like an old wooden bridge or dock. |
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